NEW YORK – At a small conference at the Harvard Club in Manhattan on Thursday, a
host of dignitaries and experts, including Israel’s envoy to the UN Ron Prosor,
addressed the UN’s classification of Palestinian refugees as the principal
stumbling block to a peace agreement between Israel and the PLO.
The
conference was the opening salvo in the direction of drafting of US legislation
meant to end the automatic transmission of refugee status to the descendents of
Palestinians that has been taking place since 1948, just as Filippo Grandi,
commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), prepared to hold a press conference on Monday
on Palestinian refugees becoming a “forgotten population” in an increasingly
turbulent region.
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